Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-02-04

lief at Wady l.y, had made desperate
push and cut his way out through Uganda.
hut the story proves to be unfounded. Mr.
Stanley ma. already reached Cairo, where
he finds the Egyptian government ready to
furnish everything he wants, and he will
start at once for Zanzibar.
The fuulhardy scheme of Capt. Cloud
man and mate, who left st. Augustine in
a small yowl Jan ~, bound on "A voyage
around the world as correspondents for thu .
Outing magazine, was brought to a sudden |
termination "A week after by the wreckinS |
of their boat ON the Florida coast near Ju
pitcr inlet. The occupants of the boat claim .
to have saved themselves by casting oil up
ON the troubled waters. which stilled the .
waves and abated their fury.
Kcene. y. H.. held two large temperance
meeting, last Sunday, afternoon and even
ing, in pursuance of the call of the clergy
Of the city, and steps We're taken to form
league to brace up the authorities to do
their duty in the matter of shutting up thu
rum holes and to sustain them in whatever
action of this kind they may take. The
leading citizens of the town participated in
the movement and the public mind is evil
IDENTIFY well aroused on the subject.
Honest" John O'Neil, another member
of the New York Doodle board of aldermen
was convicted of bribery on Tuesday. Mr.
Fellows, the leading counsel for the state
furnished the sensation of the trial by his
assertion in summing up that ex-Alderman
Waite had never been under arrest and
never been charged with anything wrong.
An attempt will be made to get a reversal
of the verdict, but there is little doubt that
in the end O'Neil will have to join company
with Jaehnc and McQuade at Sing Sing.
The strike of coal handlers has grown 10
enormous proportions the past week The
New York longshoremen, who load and IN
load ships cargoes, have joined the Goa
handlers and the total number of men now
out is not less than 80 000 Tuesday 5000
handlers of railroad freight joined in the
strike and the Knights of Labor are tryin-
tn extend the movement to the coal miners
rs to Shut off absolutely the coal supply
but the indications are that the strike has
already reached proportions beyond their
control and it is liable to collapse at any
time
One of the most remarkable murder my.
tories in the annals of modern crime wa
disclosed at Baltimore, Nd, last week. y
trunk shipped from New York that had re
manned for several days at the express of
flee gave out so strong II stencil that it was
opened. when the coroner was Mortified by
discovering the body of man from which
the head, arms and legs had been severed
The clues connected with the trunk were
followed up and the dead man was found to
he Bohle, New York German. Further
investigation led to the arrest and full con
fession of another German named Unger,
who claims to have killed Bohle in self de
fence, and took this strange method of dis
posing of the body to avoid detection.
A Ludlow correspondent of the Spring
field Republican alleges that the Central
Vermont station agents at Cuttingsville and
Mt. Holly, on the Rutland road, have been
removed because they were warm Edmunds
men and refused to act on the suggestion
of their superiors that they should put in
some work for exGov. Smith. The CORE
spondent says that Mr.. Chittenden, the
freight agent, came down and labored in
person with Mr.. Cook, the Mt. Holly agent
and left him with the remark that you
understand our position in regard to the
matter" The letter admits that claim
may be set up that these two agents We're
not altogether acceptable to the people who
did business at these station, but says this
is only an excuse.
Mrs Helen Campbell, who is doing such
noble work for underpaid and starving
working women in New York through her
articles in the Tribune, from which The
Phoenix has made liberal extracts, is de
scribed as an "angel in disguise" by one
who has already felt the benefcence of her
timely utterances. Mrs. Campbell is under
great physical and mental strain in pre-
pairing these papers, for her sympathies arr
keen and sensitive, and the suffering sh,
encounters everywhere not only grieves hel
womanly heart, but almost units her foi
the subsequent labor of writing what sh,
knows of the injustice of humanity Sh,
is indeed noble woman, and, while it can
not fail to pain the reader, her article,
shouI be thoroughly read throughout th
civilized country.
The Ohio courts seem to be engaged il
earnest in an effort to enforce the law
against cruel and nhuman sports and b,
doing so to put an end to them in the state
Last week prize fighter and his secon,
were fined and sentenced to the wOrkhous
in Cleveland for violating the law agahs
fighting in public They appealed, CAV
bail, and have fled from the jurisdiction o
the court but the moral effect of their sen
tence remains. This week in Cincinnati
band of 40 intelligent citizens who wcr
captured at II cock fight We're fined S25 eac
and contributed in the aggregate $1,000 t
the school fund. This was ON IA plea u
guilty, and the others captured in the raid
who concluded to stand trial, have tn
promise of the judge that if convicted the
shall be punished to the full extent of IN
law. Ohio sets an example worthy Of beiu
followed in every state of the Union.
A novel method Of securing Justice, bu
eiiicacious nevertheless and bearing on il
face the stamp of the reckless spirit Of tn
''rowdy Vest was that practised recent
ly by the miners near Wicks, Montana
The New York managers of the Gregor
mine, who visited Wicks and attempted
close the works without first settling tn
captured and detained by the miners. III
general manager of the mine was sent O
East to collect the necessary funds, viii
Albert Selgman, wealthy stockhode
WAS held rs a hostage, pending the paymel
of S;5,OO0 Last Sunday the money W,
guaranteed and Selgman released An il
teresting part of the story is that Seligma
was treated with the utmost respect an
courtesy and that the saloons of the pla,
were closed 10y miners detailed for that pu
pose.
In a speech in the Senate last Friday NJ
Edmunds incidentally let il he known tn,
lac is in favor of abolishing our Intern
revenue taxes, which he spoke of as 81
remnant of the unpleasantness of twent,
five years ago" The resources of the 90,
eminent he would have obtained entire
from the tariff ON importations, with Il
money received from the government Ian,
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